Sunday, December 28, 2008

Neer Dosa ~ PanPolo

PanPolo is one of our regular breakfast item. In my initial days of cooking in China, this was one dosa that I used to hate to make as it would never come out good. The rice that I used was the main reason for the failures. Now I use the Idli rice or Basmati rice, both give me excellent results. Back home, We use the normal Sona masuri rice. There are various dishes that go along well with dosa. Chutney, Jaggery syrup (Ravvo), honey, any veg or non veg gravy that is spicy.. I even love to have this with Mango pickle drizzled with coconut Oil.

The name Neer dosa is because this batter is very thin unlike regular dosa batter and even the dosa comes out very thin and lacy. Unlike regular dosa batter this does not need it to be fermented.

What's needed:

1 cup Idli rice

3-4 tbsp grated Coconut

Salt to taste

Procedure:

1) Soak rice overnight or for 6 hrs. Grind it to fine paste along with grated coconut.

2) Add suffecient water to bring it to a consistency thinner than the normal dosa batter. Add salt to taste.

3) Heat a Tava. Pour little oil. (Skip if you are using a non stick pan). Pour a ladle of batter and move the tava in circular motion so that the dosa spreads uniformly. It forms a nice lace like structure. Cook one medium flame.

4) The pattern to fold the dosa is to first fold it in to half and then again fold it so that it forms a triangle like structure.

Serve hot with Chutney or any side dish of your choice.

P.S: If using Sona masuri rice you can use 1 cup of rice and 1/2 cup of grated coconut. But since I use Idli rice which makes the dosa very soft I use just 2-3 tbsp of grated coconut and yet the dosa's are soft and fluffy.

Your polo looks beautiful. It has been ages since I made paan polo. I love it best with spicy chutney and coconut jaggery mixture.On another note Sona masuri is not avialable here at all :-( It has been atleast 5 months since they are off shelves here.

Ujwal, today morning while making panpolo i was thinking of putting a post on it. Now that u have done it there is no need for me to blog. I love to have it with murabba or honey but hubby prefers it with kolumbo. Lovely pic and a pretty plate.

Looks yummy.Idli rice is good it seems.I use normal sona masuri,but not popular item in my house.I love it with savoury and sweet accompaniments as well.Next time I will try with idli rice.This look so inviting